Fri 10 May 13:00: Professor Simon Davis, MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford
This Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar will take place on Friday 10 May 2024, starting at 1:00 pm, in the Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC)
Speaker: Professor Simon Davis, MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford
Host: Clare Bryant, Professor of Innate Immunity, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.
For anyone who can’t attend in person, please join the Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar on Zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89741634903?pwd=dzcxbU45NjAwQXo1dmlNMjR3V0lUUT09
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Refreshments will be available following the Seminar.
- Speaker: Professor Simon Davis, MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford
- Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
- Series: Immunology and Medicine Seminars; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Wed 24 Apr 17:00: Professor John Wherry, Director, Institute for Immunology, University of Pennsylvania
This Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar will take place on Wednesday 24th April 2024, starting at 5:00 pm.
Speaker: Prof John Wherry; Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President’s Distinguished Professor Director, Institute for Immunology Co-Program Leader, Immunobiology Program, Abramson Cancer Center Co-Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. University of Pennsylvania
Title: TBC
Host: Professor Menna Clatworthy, Director of CITIID , NIHR Research Professor and Professor of Translational Immunology, University of Cambridge
Refreshments will be available following the Seminar.
- Speaker: Professor John Wherry, Director, Institute for Immunology, University of Pennsylvania
- Wednesday 24 April 2024, 17:00-18:00
- Venue: LMB lecture theatre, Francis Crick Avenue, CB2 0QH Cambridge.
- Series: Immunology and Medicine Seminars; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Wed 24 Apr 17:00: Title - TBC
This Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar will take place on Wednesday 24th April 2024, starting at 5:00 pm.
Speaker: Prof John Wherry; Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President’s Distinguished Professor Director, Institute for Immunology Co-Program Leader, Immunobiology Program, Abramson Cancer Center Co-Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. University of Pennsylvania
Title: TBC
Host: Professor Menna Clatworthy, Director of CITIID , NIHR Research Professor and Professor of Translational Immunology, University of Cambridge
Refreshments will be available following the Seminar.
- Speaker: Professor John Wherry, Director, Institute for Immunology, University of Pennsylvania
- Wednesday 24 April 2024, 17:00-18:00
- Venue: LMB lecture theatre, Francis Crick Avenue, CB2 0QH Cambridge.
- Series: Immunology and Medicine Seminars; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Wed 24 Apr 17:00: Title - TBC
This Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar will take place on Wednesday 24th April 2024, starting at 5:00 pm.
Speaker: Prof John Wherry; Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President’s Distinguished Professor Director, Institute for Immunology Co-Program Leader, Immunobiology Program, Abramson Cancer Center Co-Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. University of Pennsylvania
Title: TBC
Host: Professor Menna Clatworthy, Director of CITIID , NIHR Research Professor and Professor of Translational Immunology, University of Cambridge
Refreshments will be available following the Seminar.
- Speaker: Professor John Wherry, Director, Institute for Immunology, University of Pennsylvania
- Wednesday 24 April 2024, 17:00-18:00
- Venue: TBC.
- Series: Immunology and Medicine Seminars; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Fri 14 Mar 17:30: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh
- Friday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30
- Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Series: Darwin College Lecture Series; organiser: Janet Gibson.
Fri 07 Mar 17:30: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster
- Friday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30
- Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Series: Darwin College Lecture Series; organiser: Janet Gibson.
Fri 28 Feb 17:30: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Professor Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego
- Friday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30
- Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Series: Darwin College Lecture Series; organiser: Janet Gibson.
Fri 21 Feb 17:30: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Sandi Toksvig
- Friday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30
- Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Series: Darwin College Lecture Series; organiser: Janet Gibson.
Fri 14 Feb 17:30: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge
- Friday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30
- Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Series: Darwin College Lecture Series; organiser: Janet Gibson.
Fri 31 Jan 17:30: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Maya Youssef
- Friday 31 January 2025, 17:30-18:30
- Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Series: Darwin College Lecture Series; organiser: Janet Gibson.
Fri 07 Feb 17:30: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford
- Friday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30
- Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Series: Darwin College Lecture Series; organiser: Janet Gibson.
Fri 24 Jan 17:30: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Professor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge
- Friday 24 January 2025, 17:30-18:30
- Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Series: Darwin College Lecture Series; organiser: Janet Gibson.
Wed 05 Jun 16:00: Title to be confirmed
Chaired by Cassia Hare
- Speaker: Dorina Timofte, University of Liverpool
- Wednesday 05 June 2024, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: LT2.
- Series: Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine; organiser: Fiona Roby.
Tue 23 Jul 16:00: Active Surveillance of Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Fresh Push to Identify Reservoir Hosts
Abstract: The recent wave of pandemic/epidemics in the world has necessitated that Africa join the global push to not only to be ready for future pandemics but to also preempt them. Africa is plagued with a lot of neglected tropical diseases, many of them caused by neurotropic viruses. With minimal funding of these diseases, the burden they create on quality of life and productivity of animals has not been well estimated. More important is the need for active surveillance of possible reservoir hosts for some of these Neglected Tropical Diseases, so as to proper understand their epidemiology. In this presentation, I will be speaking on West Nile, and Crimean Congo Heamorrhagic Fever viruses, and the roles that reservoirs may be playing for reverse zoonosis.
Short Citation: James Olukayode Olopade graduated with the DVM (Veterinary) degree in 1992 and obtained his MSc and PhD in 2003 and 2006, respectively, all from the University of Ibadan. He was promoted full Professor in 2011. James carried out postdoctoral trainings in Marine Biology Laboratory Woodshole, USA , as an International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) Fellow at Penn State University, USA in 2008, and as a MacArthur and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, both at the University of Wurzburg, Germany. He has served as Editor in Chief, Nigerian Veterinary Journal and Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. His current research areas are in neuroscience, comparative anatomy and surveillance biology. He has been funded by a variety of organisations including the International Society of Neurochemistry; the International Brain Research Organisation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Nigeria, and the Cambridge Alborada Grant (UK) amongst others. He has over 160 research publications including 4 copyrights and is the most cited veterinarian in Africa as per brain research. James Olopade is currently the Principal Investigator of Alexander von Humboldt Research Hub for Zoonotic Arboviral Diseases (HRH-ZAD), a €750,000 Humboldt Research Hub funding for pandemic preparedness, and also the Director of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.
- Speaker: James O Olopade, Humboldt Research Hub for Zoonotic Arboviral Diseases, University of Ibadan
- Tuesday 23 July 2024, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: LT2.
- Series: Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine; organiser: Fiona Roby.
Fri 12 Apr 13:00: Transposon escape points to function in somatic cells?
The next Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar will take place on Friday 12th April 2024, starting at 1:00 pm, in the Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC)
Speaker: Professor Geoff Faulkner, Professorial Research Fellow at Mater Research and Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), University of Queensland, Australia
Title: “Transposon escape points to function in somatic cells?”
Host: Paul Lehner, Professor of Immunology and Medicine and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge
Refreshments will be available following the Seminar.
- Speaker: Professor Geoff Faulkner, Professorial Research Fellow at Mater Research and Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), University of Queensland, Australia
- Friday 12 April 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
- Series: Immunology and Medicine Seminars; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Wed 24 Apr 14:00: Host manipulation by the parasite _Cryptosporidium_
Infection by the parasite Cryptosporidium is a leading cause of child mortality, no vaccine is available and the current drug treatment against this diarrheal pathogen is inefficient. The disease is transmitted through food or water contaminated with oocysts, the chlorine-resistant parasite stage. The parasite infects the epithelial cells of the small intestine in which it replicates intracellularly. Invasion and intracellular development require extensive modifications of the host cell that remain largely unknown at the molecular level. We recently showed that parasite secreted proteins play an important role in this process, however, our knowledge remains limited. Modifications of the enterocytes as well as persistent inflammation will alter the physiology of the gut and have long lasting impact on the children. In collaboration with Ross Waller laboratory, we conducted a proteomic experiment, hyperLOPIT, on fractionated Cryptosporidium sporozoites to identify the content of the various secretory organelles. This list of potential Cryptosporidium virulence factors will help fill important gaps in our knowledge of the host/parasite interplay.
- Speaker: Dr Amandine Guérin - Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..
- Series: Parasitology Seminars; organiser: Anna Protasio.
Wed 15 May 12:00: How use of SSRI impacts placenta and mammary gland development
Laura L. Hernandez, Professor-Lactation Physiology Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Speaker: Laura L. Hernandez, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday 15 May 2024, 12:00-13:00
- Venue: LT2.
- Series: Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine; organiser: Fiona Roby.
Fri 22 Mar 13:00: Maximising the impact of CAR T cell therapy for acute leukaemia
This Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar will take place on Friday 22 March 2024, starting at 1:00 pm, in the Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC):
Speaker: Dr Sara Ghorashian, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University College London and Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Host: Professor Rahul Roychoudhuri, Professor of Cancer Immunology, University of Cambridge.
This talk is part of the Immunology and Medicine Seminars series.
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Ruth Paton
- Speaker: Sara Ghorashian, Honorary Associate Professor, University College London
- Friday 22 March 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
- Series: Immunology and Medicine Seminars; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Wed 15 May 12:00: Title to be confirmed
Laura L. Hernandez, Professor-Lactation Physiology Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Speaker: Laura L. Hernandez, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday 15 May 2024, 12:00-13:00
- Venue: LT2.
- Series: Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine; organiser: Fiona Roby.
Wed 15 May 12:00: Title to be confirmed
Laura L. Hernandez, Professor-Lactation Physiology Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Speaker: Laura L. Hernandez, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Wednesday 15 May 2024, 12:00-13:00
- Venue: LT2.
- Series: Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine; organiser: Fiona Roby.